"Come in here," came a shout from the next room. "You guys are going to want to see this."

When they entered the nearby door they found themselves in a massive room, at one end of which was a computer console but stretched out in front of it was a huge holographic display of what looked like thousands of strands of string hanging in the air, the occasional glowing dot placed at intervals along them.

"This, my friends, is an image of every recorded timeline the Agency has ever come across. Best guess is there's at least 200 here."

"Okay," Mack replied. "There's only one other thing you need to know: if something triggers the alarm inform us immediately, there's only one thing that'd set the alarm off and...safe to say it is not a good thing."